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It can be so painful for couples when they do not share the same religious beliefs. They can experience feelings of disconnection and loss with not being able to fully share one another’s spiritual faith and cultural traditions.
When partners enter their marriage being the same faith and one partner then begins questioning that faith or even decides to leave that faith, both parties may experience this discrepancy in their faith and leaving the faith as a betrayal.
Often times, the partner who is going through a faith crisis or who desires to leave the faith feels betrayed by the faith as they come to discover information that contradicts what had been taught by their religious leaders. This partner may also feel betrayed by their partner if their partner doesn’t share the same concerns or feelings of betrayal by the faith and in fact still loves and affiliates strongly with that faith.
The partner who maintains their faith can feel betrayed by the partner experiencing the faith crisis, especially to the extent that they married based on the trust that they would continue as partners in that particular faith: raise their children in that faith, practice the rituals and traditions of that faith and participate actively in that faith community. It can feel like a broken promise and that their dreams of the life they aspired to create for themselves and their children is being taken away by the very person they are supposed to be creating the dream with.
Both partners often feel very alone and isolated in their unique struggles. They often feel angry and hurt as they grieve these losses in isolation from one another. They often view each other as the source of their pain and therefore struggle to turn to one another as a source of comfort and support in processing their thoughts and
Faith crises can be very traumatic for both partners. It can make it difficult for them to turn to one another for comfort and support because their fears of losing each other loom so high.
Active members whose partners are struggling with their faith or have gotten to the point of leaving the church, often feel betrayed because they may have married their partner in large part due to the fact they they both desired to build their life together as active members of the church. With many faiths, faith crises carry implications of great fear of loss and genuine risk of loss: loss of connection with the community, extended family, loss of personal and marital identify, and sometimes loss of spiritual connection with each other and with God.
Emotionally Focused Therapy effectively helps couples navigate these challenges in a way that addresses the heart of the spiritual, cultural and relational fears of loss in a way that can help couples reconnect and strengthen their emotional and spiritual bond with one another.
• Interfaith Couples
• Faith Crises and Faith Transitions
• LGBT Faith Crisis & Transitions
• Family Therapy: coming out to family members, healing broken connections, building upons shared beliefs and traditions, creating new traditions.
• Co-Therapy available with active LDS, inactive/non practicing LDS, Christian, Jewish and Spiritual but non-religious counselors
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